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COUNCIL MINUTES DECEMBER 14, 1998 will be held January 11, 1999, and the ordinance would be published in the Legal Newspaper. • The ordinance would be in effect 30 days from the date of the publication. Council Member Neal moved to approve the FIRST READING of Ordinance No. 16 - 98, as presented. Council Member Dahl seconded the motion. Council Member Bergeson voted yes. Council Member Dahl voted yes. Council Member Lyden voted yes. Council Member Neal voted yes. Mayor Sullivan voted yes. Motion carried unanimously. Consideration of Sending the Lyden/Dahl Proposal to the Metropolitan Council, Brian Wessel - Mr. Wessel stated the Comprehensive Plan has been approved for submission to the Metropolitan Council and is currently being prepared for submission by the end of the year. The Plan is being forwarded to adjoining communities and agencies for reviewal. He stated the Open Space Development Plan (Lyden/Dahl Plan) prepared by Council Member Lyden and Council Member Dahl was submitted to the Comprehensive Plan Task Force on June 25, 1998. It was reviewed on July 16, 1998. Portions of the plan have been integrated into the draft Comprehensive Plan. He asked Council for direction regarding forwarding the Lyden/Dahl Plan to the Metropolitan Council as well as the draft Comprehensive Plan. Council Member Neal felt the Lyden/Dahl Plan should be sent to the Metropolitan Council to get • another opinion. • Council Member Bergeson stated he did not think the Lyden/Dahl Plan should be sent because the City Council appointed a Comprehensive Plan Task Force to develop the Plan that is being submitted. The Task Force did not recommend sending in a minority report as well. He indicated he believes the document is a minority report and is not in favor of submitting it to the Metropolitan Council. Council Member Lyden stated he could say that any plan that has less than a 4/5 vote is a minority plan. The intent of forwarding the Lyden/Dahl Plan is for the Metropolitan Council to have a broad spectrum of where all the Council Members are coming from. Mayor Sullivan stated the key elements of the Lyden/Dahl Plan are similar to policies used to develop the Comprehensive Plan which has been approved. The City has put together a Plan that includes policy and specific land use issues. The Lyden/Dahl Plan is not that type of plan. The document is 58 pages in which eight (8) pages are Xerox copies from Rural By Design which is a text used by the 20/20 Vision group. Four (4) pages are recommendations that are in the Plan. One page is the Economic Health Index (EHI) which is a measure of success of the process. The EHI is only one measure. It is a financial measure only. Three (3) things that need to be part of the Plan that also need to be measured are ecology, economics, and cultural aspects. Two (2) pages are numbers comparisons. One of those pages was put together by the City and is mislabeled. The second portrays numbers of MUSA which are inaccurate and the author is